Air-cooling apparatus for rooms



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AIR COOLING APPARATUS FOR ROOMS. N0. 416,405. .7 Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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AIR COOLING APPARATUS FOR ROOMS.

No. 416,405. Patented Dec. 3, 1889.,

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LEON C. FOUQUET, OF MAGNOLIA, KANSAS.

AIR-COOLING APPARATUS FOR ROOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,405, dated December 3, 1889.

A nman filed March 22, 1829. Serial No. 304,271. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEON C. FOUQUET,Of Magnolia, in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Air-Cooling Apparatus for Rooms, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an air-cooling apparatus designed more especially for application to air-inlets of sick-rooms in hot climates, but applicable also to window or door openings of parlors or other sitting-rooms or bedchambers, for cooling the air-supply to the rooms, to promote recovery of the sick or the comfort of persons in good health; and the invention has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient apparatus of this character.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts of the air-cooling apparatus, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is an inside face view of my improved air-cooling apparatus partly broken away, and as'constructed for and applied to the lower half of a window the lower sash of which is raised. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View taken on the line x 05in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view taken on the line y 'y in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an inside face view of parts of the cold-water spray or sprinkling pipes as adapted for the cooling apparatus at the lower half of the window. Fig. 5 is an inside face View of the air-cooling apparatus partly broken away and as applied to the entire area of a window, both sashes being removed; and Fig. 6 is aninside face view of parts of the cold-water-spray pipes, as adapted for the cooling apparatus shown in Fig. 5.

My improved air-cooling apparatus may be set up at any opening or passage through which fresh air may enter a room, such as a window or a doorway.

The drawings illustrate two forms or arrangements of the invention, which, however, I will describe with more particular reference to Figs. 1, 2, 8, and 4, as follows Two frames A A, made preferably of light metal rods a, a few cross-bars a, and a filling of wire-netting fabric a are fastened in any suitable manner to opposite sides of a windowframe B, below the raised lower sash of the window. I show the frames A held by screws 1), passed through their cross-bars a into the stiles of the window-frame. To these frames A are fixed cross-bars a from which wire icebaskets O are suspended, preferably by hooks c, fixed to the ends of the baskets. These baskets are about as wide as the frames A, or may be a little wider, and they extend quiteacross the window between the frames. In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings I show three of these ice-baskets suspended from the side frames A A, one above the other, and spaced apart about equidistant from each other and from the bottoms of the window sashes D and from the window-frame sill E.

To each ice-basket O, at its inner side and near its top, is attached a rod F, from which is hunga coarsely-woven flannel or woolen fabric G, and preferably by hooks g on the fabric engaging the rod. An upper rod F is also held to the opposite frames A A above the upper ice-basket O, and from this rod a fabric G is suspended. All four of the rods F are arranged at the inner part of the apparatus and the fabrics G which are connected to these rods are conducted outward and over one or more deflecting-rods f, which are held to the opposite side frames at their outer parts, and from these rods f the higher fabrics G hang down and lap upon the next lower fabric. Each fabric at its lower edge is provided with a metal rod g, to hold it smoothly and prevent its being fiapped about by the wind. I show the upper and lower fabrics passed outward from their suspensionrods F over but one deflecting-rod f, held at the outer edges of the opposite frames A A, while the two intermediate fabrics G each hang over two deflecting-rods f, one placed below and back of the other. I may use either one ortwo deflecting-rods for each fabric. The top-fabric suspension-rod F and all the fabric-deflecting rods f are preferably held to the opposite frames A A by means of hooks at the ends of the rods engaging eyes or staples held to the frames, and as most clearly shown in Fig. l of the drawings,

which, however, shows the lowermost rod f held to the ends of the removable water-dripreceiving tray presently described. \Vhen the baskets C are unhooked from the framerods a the rods F f may also be unhooked or detached from the frames to allow the entire apparatus to be packed away in small space when not in use.

It will be noticed that the three upper fabrics G extend over the three ice-baskets and protect the ice in them from the direct rays of the sun to prevent its melting too quickly, and the lower fabric G extends along underneath the lower ice-basket; hence the cold drip-water from the three ice-baskets will fall onto the three lower fabrics G and trickle down them to a drip-tray II, which may be held by screws h or otherwise to the opposite frames A A, and over the window-sill E, which it covers and which it overhangs at the inside in the form of a trough I, having a laterally-inclined bottom and provided with a faucet J, through which the water may be withdrawn.

It is obvious that as the fabrics G spread over quite the full area of the opening at the window nearly all the air entering the room at this window must necessarily pass through the wet cold fabrics, and the temperature of the room will be very materially lowered, to the great relief and advantage of sick per sons therein and to facilitate their recovery, and especially in hot climates, where high and enervating temperatures prevail, and also to promote the comfort of persons in good health in parlors or other rooms, to the open window or doorway of which the cooling apparatus may be adjusted.

I do not depend alone on the cold-water drip from the ice-baskets 0 onto the fabrics G to cool the air of the room, as I have provided a water-spray or sprinkling pipe K over each of the fabrics, and each spray-pipe, which is closed at one end, is connected at its other end to a common supply-pipe L, which communicates with a tank M, which may have ice in it, or it may be a pipe or other suitable source or supply of water, and is provided with a valve Z, to control or regulate the inlet of water to the pipes K, which at their lower sides are provided with numerous perforations, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, and through which the water sprays or spouts onto-the upper part of the fabric G, over which the spray-pipe is adjusted. When thewater is let in more or less freely at the valve Z, the upper fabric G, which does not receive cold ice-water drip like the three lower fabrics, will be kept constantly wet and cool and the icewater drip falling onto the three lower fabrics will be supplemented by the water sprayed from the pipes K above them, and this will be specially advantageous should the drip lessen or stop by reason of the quick melting or entire consumption of the ice, as in the latter case the water-spray onto the fabrics G from the pipes K would alone cause a grateful lowering of temperature of the air passing through the fabrics into the room. The water-supply pipe L is preferably arranged vertically at the righthand side of the window, and the spray-pipes K extend laterally from it over the fabrics.

I will now briefly refer to Fig. 5 of the drawings, which shows that both sashes may be removed from the window-frame l3, and the entire opening of the frame be filled by a series of ice-baskets C, fabrics G, and spraypipes K, connected to a stand-pipe L, which extends the whole height of the opening and is connected with a tank M, or it may be with a pipe leading from any source of watersupply, the effect being substantially the same as when the apparatus is fitted only at the lower half of the window, except that the larger area assures a more plentiful supply of cooled fresh air to the room.

It will be noticed that in the apparatus shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4 the upper part of the water-supply pipe L is provided with a T-coupling 70, which allows the four spraypipes K to be connected to a short standpipe L, for use at the lower half of the window, and when the apparatus is to be adjusted to the whole window, as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, the upper of these four spray-pipes K will be disconnected from the coupling 70, and its place will be filled by a plug and an upper length of pipe L, having the spray-pipes K, will be screwed into the top of the coupling to extend to the top of the window-frame, where it will be connected by a short pipe with the tank M or other source of water-supply.

If preferred, the fabrics G may have a blue, pink, or green color, which will be reflected in the ice in the baskets and give a pleasing effect; but white or gray fabrics would probably give better protection to the ice from the suns rays, and may therefore be preferred in practice.

The en tire apparatus, excepting the watersupply pipes and the cold-water-drip fabrics, may be made cheaply from galvanized metal plates, rods, and wire, and maybe fitted to any sized air-inlet at a window or doorway of a room, and may be set up and operated by any person of ordinary intelligence, and the whole structure may be taken down or dismembered and packed away in small space when out of use.

It may be preferable at times to provide the ends of the rods F f with hooks, which may be caught into the wire-nettimga of the frames A to sustain and deflect the fabrics G, substantially as above described, but independently of the ice-baskets 0, thus allowing the baskets to be used or not at pleasure, while still retaining the air-cooling fabrics and the pipes which sprinkle them with water, and providing for cooling the air entering the room when ice for the baskets cannot be easily obtained, as will readily be understood.

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Having thus described my inventiomwhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In the air-cooling apparatus, the combination of frames A A, arranged at opposite sides of the air-inlet, the open-work or foraminated ice-baskets O, horizontally supported one above the other in said frames,

the fabric-deflecting rods f, connecting said frames, and arranged parallel with and adjacent to said baskets, the fabrics G, supported between said frames and arranged with a portion forming an incline, one above and below each basket, passing over and depending from said deflecting-rods and overhanging each other at the outer side of the said inlet, and the drip-receiving tray arranged below said baskets and fabrics, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In air-cooling apparatus, the combination of a series of overlapping fabrics suspended in an air-inlet, water-spray pipes above each of the fabrics, and a drip-tray below the bottom fabric, substantially as herein set forth.

3. In air-coolin g apparatus, the combination of ice-baskets supported in an air-inlet, fabrics hung in the inlet and extending over and between the baskets and down outside of them across the air-inlet, and spray-pipes extending over the upper parts of the fabrics and connected to a source of water-supply, substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

4:. In the air-cooling apparatus, the combination of the foraminated or open-work icebaskets supported in the air-inlet, one a distance above the other, the fabrics inclined below and between the baskets and depending at their outer sides across the inlet, and the drip-receiving tray below said baskets and fabrics, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

'end hooks 0, whereby they are supported to span. the air-inlet between said frames by hooking over said cross-bars, and fabrics upon which the drippings from said baskets fall, substantially as set forth.

7. The air-cooling apparatus described and shown, consisting of the opposite frames A A, the fabric-deflecting rods f, the ice-baskets O, the fabrics G, and the stand-pipe L, and spraypipes K, said rods, baskets, and fabrics being provided with hooks for respectively attaching them to the frames, and said stand-pipe and spray-pipes being constructed to unjoint or be dismembered, whereby the apparatus is adapted to be readily set up or taken down and its parts packed in'a small space, substantially as set fort-h.

8. In an air-cooling apparatus, the combination of the frames A A, held at opposite sides of an air-inlet, a series of ice-baskets O,

held to said frames, fabric-deflecting rods f,

near the baskets, suspended fabrics G, passed outward over the rods f, whence they hang, and a drip-receiving tray H I J, placed below the ice-baskets and fabrics, substantially as set forth.

LEON O. FOUQUET. Witnesses:

DANIEL GUNSAULLUS, MICHAEL LILL. 

